Low-frequency magnetic fluctuation spectra in the magnetosheath and plasma depletion layer

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Apr 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....99.5893d&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A4, p. 5893-5901

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Geophysics

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Ion Cyclotron Radiation, Magnetosheath, Plasma Density, Plasma Layers, Plasma Spectra, Protons, Boltzmann-Vlasov Equation, Cyclotron Resonance, Geophysics, Helium Ions, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Mirrors, Wave Propagation

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Recent observations have delineated several different kinds of enhanced magnetic fluctuation spectra below the proton cyclotron frequency in the terrestrial magnetosheath. A model is presented that represents the variation of plasma parameters across the plasma depletion layer and into the magnetosheath proper. Using this model, we find that many of the properties of the observed spectra follow directly from the predictions of linear Vlasov instability theory. The observed progression of spectral features is a natural progression from mirror mode to merged (in frequency range) proton and He(2+) cyclotron modes to bifurcated (in frequency range) cyclotron modes as plasma convects earthward in the magnetosheath. The necessary change in dispersion surface topology from separated proton and He(2+) cyclotron surfaces at low beta to merged surfaces at high beta is described.

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